Whose side are you on?
The report also confirms that the UK wanted access to far more data than we thought — excess of the knowledge protected by the Advanced Data Protection feature that Apple withdrew from offering within the UK because it grappled with the federal government’s overreach.
Based on the Financial Times, the UK is demanding access to all grades of iCloud storage, and these demands extend globally: “The obligations… usually are not limited to the UK or users of the service within the UK; they apply globally in respect of the relevant data categories of all iCloud users,” the IPT filing states.
This hypothetically gives British law enforcement the precise to access the info of Apple customers anywhere on the planet, including the US. It implies that UK intelligence agents will give you the option to get people’s data, emails, and passwords with little protection, transparency, or oversight, and that this authoritarian overreach extends to users regardless of where they’re from.